Introduction to Social Media and Data Analytics Minitrack

Many of the 1.5 billion users of social media send or receive messages or post or access new content every day. The personal, social, political and business implications of this volume of activity are profound. Extracting useful information from this activity presents a challenge for scientists, technologists and also scholars in other disciplines. Taking the data deluge from on-line social media, in its many forms, and transforming it into useful information (or knowledge) is the essence of this minitrack on social media and data analytics.